Quotes About Society

The classic rules of American politics are dying, if not dead, if you look at the last two presidential elections. An African-American could never be president until one was; a TV reality star couldn't become president until one was.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

The pressure of looking a certain way and having to present yourself a certain way is hard. It's difficult to feel genuine about yourself when you feel the pressure of being a certain person.

I find when I'm perceived as male in society, there is an enormous amount of pressure, but it comes with respect, so it's a balance.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

I don't know what pressures there are these days.

I never wanted to become an actress to avoid the pressures of looking good all the time.

If there is one thing French Muslims want, it is to be rid of the daily pressures imposed on them by Islamic fundamentalists.

Television wasn't prestigious.

Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.

We didn't ask for our wombs and ovaries, and this presumption that we have to use them because otherwise it's a waste, otherwise we're not emotional or not sensitive in some way, it's a really cruel diagnosis of a woman's character.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

India cannot pretend anymore that none of its citizens fancy membership to the Global Jehad club. We need to examine where our secularism has failed.

Americans have a choice to make: higher taxes or fewer health care entitlements. We'll probably have to choose both. But as each of us marches toward death, we can't pretend we can have all the health care we need, paid for by taxing Bill Gates a little more.

I'm not going to pretend that I'm something I'm not just because society says celebrities should be these perfect people that have to act a certain way.

Women are forced to pretend to be men. They're feigning this toughness. They're miserable. Study after study has shown that feminism has made women less happy. They're not happy in the work force, for the most part.

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

In the West, they have morality. We pretend to be moral people but we are not. We do not have a moral code.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.